Poultry feeder



Oct. 2 1923. 1,469,340 y W. P. SHORTELL I POULTRY FEEDER Filed March 29, 1922 ATTORNEY Patented Get. 2, 1923.

UNITED smiles {tartar times;

WILLIAM- P. sn'onrELL, or rooenxnnrsrn, NEW YORK.

POULTRY FEEDER.

Application filed March '29; 1922. Serial No. 547,608.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM P. Snore TELL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Poughkeepsie, in the county of Dutchess and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improve,

ments' in Poultry Feeders, of which the following is a specification.

The general object of my present invention is to provide a poultry feeder of simple,

durable and relatively inexpensiveconstrue tion, characterized by the provisions made for continuously maintaining a supply of food available to the poultry to be fed and by the provisions made for preventing V wastage of food.

The various features of novelty which characterize my invention are pointed out a is vertically disposed, and is provided with a removable cover B for its smaller upper end and preferably is provided also with a bail or. handle C. The lower end of the magazine A extends into a receptacle D to which it is secured by legs E so as to space the loweredge of the magazine above the bottom of the receptacle D. The latter is in the form of a shallow pan having its upper edge inturned to provide a flange D. Theflange D is at a level somewhat above. the bottom edge'of the magazine A, and is sep arated, from the latter by a comparatively narrow annular slot or space through which 7 the food may be reached by the" poultry.

Advantageously the parts are formed of sheet metal such as galvanized iron and the legs E may be riveted or brazed to the magazine and to the bottom of the pan D. T he flange D of the receptacle D may be spun and Irom its inner margin, and-covers more than half the horizontal area of the an-.

nular space-between the bottom edge of means preferably is inclined downwardlythe magazine and the cylindricalbody of the an ll y nnproved poultry feeder simple and durable in construction and relcal form of the magazine minimizes trouble obviously 6O atively inexpensive to construct. The conisometimes experienced in poultry feeders of this general character due to" the food arching in the magazine'and notfeeding regularly down into thereceptacle as the latter 1s emptied The proper feed of the food from the magazine A into the receptacle D is facilitated, moreover, by the fact that the legs 'E are comparatively slender in form, and offer little obstruction to the down flow of the food. the inturned flange-Di at the top of the receptacle D permits of the parts being pro portioned to hold a desirably large accumulation of food in the receptacle D while at the same time it reduces the The provision of" amount of food thrown out'of the recep-- tacle by the poultry: feeding therefrom, and 1t minimizes the fouling of the food bylthe poultry as they feed from the receptacle.

The flange D. also forms a partial coverfl for the mass of the food in the receptacle materially restricting the amount of .rain and snow passing into the receptacle when the poultry ments.

feeder is exposed to the ele- I Having now described my invention,

what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s:

A poultry feeder comprising a food magazine of frusto-conical form and open at both ends which is vertically disposed with 2 its larger end at the bottom, a removable cover for the top of said magazine, a panlike receptacle into WlllCll the. lower end of the magazine extends, said receptacle comprising a cylindrical bodyof substantially larger diameter than that of the lower end of the magazine, and asharply' inturned: flange at the upper'end of said cylindrical ice 1 body which extends inward "toward the V magazine to cover substantially more than half the horizontal area of the annular space between the bottom edge of themagazine and said cylindrical body portion, and is spaced away from the magazine to pro- Vide a' slot through which poultry may feed, and slender supports connecting said hopper and edge of the hopper away from-the bottom receptacle and spacing the lower of the receptacle.

Signed Dutchess and State of New York, this 20th day of D at Poughkeepsie, in the cou nty of 

